jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

I recently stumbled upon the following issue: For an editable grid (I tested both form edit and inline edit modes), if you pass a select control a value list with only numeric storage values, jqGrid automatically re-sorts the list by the storage values when it converts the values to a dropdown.

For example, if I include the following value list in the editoptions for a select column:

value:{"":"","8":"ACME Inc.","3":"Basic, LLC","7":"Large Corp","2":"Simple Organization","4":"Testing Organization"}

I expect to get the following select list:
<option role="option" value=""></option>
<option role="option" value="8">ACME Inc.</option>
<option role="option" value="3">Basic, LLC</option>
<option role="option" value="7">Large Corp</option>
<option role="option" value="2">Simple Organization</option>
<option role="option" value="4">Testing Organization</option>

Instead, I get this:
<option role="option" value="2">Simple Organization</option>
<option role="option" value="3">Basic, LLC</option>
<option role="option" value="4">Testing Organization</option>
<option role="option" value="7">Large Corp</option>
<option role="option" value="8">ACME Inc.</option>
<option role="option" value=""></option>

Is there any way to turn off this auto-sorting behavior? I would like to be able to display values from the database in alphabetical order while storing their IDs.